"We need an army of people to engage with science deniers, not like robots," he says. "I think that what's actually motivating an awful lot of them is the feeling that they're alienated and broken in some way" The moral of his book is we have to talk to one another because i think it's actually the talking that does it."
“Climate change is a hoax — and so is coronavirus.” “Vaccines are bad for you.” These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They are not merely uninformed — they are misinformed. They cite cherry-picked evidence, rely on fake experts, and believe conspiracy theories. How can we convince such people otherwise? How can we get them to change their minds and accept the facts when they don’t believe in facts? In this conversation based on his new book, Lee McIntyre shows that anyone can fight back against science deniers, and argues that it’s important to do so.